Hi! I am not officially an SCA member, but I seem to spend quite a lot of time in their companies anyway, and I love period costume (and re-enactment in general.)
This community is not just for SCA members. :)
1. Crossplay=win, and so are crossdressing Shakespearean heroines. (I am hoping to be able to mix and match things like the doublet and the shirt to get most of a women's Tudor outfit out of it, too.)
Ha, so much. I don't make high-necked smocks, since I like all my shirts to do double-duty and the only difference between a high-necked smock and a shirt is under the clothing where no one can see. Doublets can mix and match pretty well, too, although it depends both on how busty you are and how convincingly male you want to look (my boy doublets can be worn with skirts, but they flatten me more than is completely ideal for an Elizabethan woman, especially middle-class).
2. I cannot pick a favorite! I like all of the SCA period! But in general, I'm more interested in what the commoners and bourgeousie are wearing than in noblewomen, which tends to be harder to source to specific times and locations anyway.
Likewise. I think one can do that type of clothing to a higher authenticity level, too--and most of the trim involves massive amounts of time rather than money!
And I tend to stick to Northern/Western Europe because I am neurotic about appropriation issues.
Yeah, that's part of why I eventually switched my persona from Mongol to Spanish, although I'm still really interested in medieval Mongol clothing.
3. I think part of the reason for the shortage of religious personae (Templars aside) is a general SCA discomfort with religion combined with a feeling that career religious personae are kind of appropriation. Personally, I'm okay with pretending to be a Catholic noblewoman, but I wouldn't feel comfortable as an agnostic pretending to be a nun.
It would be an interesting project, but I doubt we're ever going to see a lot of religious personae in the SCA.
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Date: 2010-04-07 05:41 pm (UTC)This community is not just for SCA members. :)
1. Crossplay=win, and so are crossdressing Shakespearean heroines. (I am hoping to be able to mix and match things like the doublet and the shirt to get most of a women's Tudor outfit out of it, too.)
Ha, so much. I don't make high-necked smocks, since I like all my shirts to do double-duty and the only difference between a high-necked smock and a shirt is under the clothing where no one can see. Doublets can mix and match pretty well, too, although it depends both on how busty you are and how convincingly male you want to look (my boy doublets can be worn with skirts, but they flatten me more than is completely ideal for an Elizabethan woman, especially middle-class).
2. I cannot pick a favorite! I like all of the SCA period! But in general, I'm more interested in what the commoners and bourgeousie are wearing than in noblewomen, which tends to be harder to source to specific times and locations anyway.
Likewise. I think one can do that type of clothing to a higher authenticity level, too--and most of the trim involves massive amounts of time rather than money!
And I tend to stick to Northern/Western Europe because I am neurotic about appropriation issues.
Yeah, that's part of why I eventually switched my persona from Mongol to Spanish, although I'm still really interested in medieval Mongol clothing.
3. I think part of the reason for the shortage of religious personae (Templars aside) is a general SCA discomfort with religion combined with a feeling that career religious personae are kind of appropriation. Personally, I'm okay with pretending to be a Catholic noblewoman, but I wouldn't feel comfortable as an agnostic pretending to be a nun.
It would be an interesting project, but I doubt we're ever going to see a lot of religious personae in the SCA.